Welcome to the KBH Energy Center

The Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Business is an innovative interdisciplinary joint venture of the School of Law and the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. The mission of the KBH Energy Center is to provide the finest educational opportunities in the United States to students who wish to pursue careers in energy and to serve as a nexus for incisive, unbiased, and relavant research and analyses for policy makers, with a special emphasis on Latin America.
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From the KBH Energy Center Blog

Recently, parts of northern and central Texas have experienced above-normal precipitation, bringing much needed relief from the drought. This has not, however, been enough to make up for past deficits, with many locations receiving just 70 to 80 percent of normal precipitation since late 2010. Thus, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, over 61… Full Story

Last month, Senate Republicans joined their Democratic counterparts in approving legislation acknowledging that “climate change is real and not a hoax.” Senators could not, however, agree on its cause, with two measures attributing climate change to human activity failing to pass. In stark contrast, across the Atlantic, political leaders in the United Kingdom (U.K.) have… Full Story

The lesser prairie chicken – a mid-sized, brown and white striped bird inhabiting the southern Great Plains – has become a symbol of the growing tension between energy development and species conservation. Recent increases in oil and gas drilling, wind energy production, and other human activities impacting the lesser prairie chickens’ habitat has led to… Full Story

As in previous years, domestic energy production was again highlighted in President Obama’s sixth State of the Union Address. Speaking before a joint session of Congress last Tuesday, the President declared that “America is number one in oil and gas. America is number one in wind power. Every three weeks, we bring online as much… Full Story

In mid-western Hays County, a groundwater war is escalating. A private water supplier, with goals to pipe and sell close to 6,000 acre feet of water per year has strategically located a well field in an area of the Hill Country where the Trinity Aquifer is unregulated. Unlike the more recent groundwater controversies involving decisions… Full Story